Miguel Ramos tries to understand the paintings of Filipino artist Manuel Ocampo. He describes them as "composed of unintelligible random collections of images..."
Ocampo of his paintings says: "What they mean I have no idea or I wouldn't want to read them in some pseudo-socio-psychological manner invoking Marx, Freud or the Post-Structuralists. I think art that tries to intellectualize itself like an academic lecture just falls flat when one really looks at it on a critical level because it basically all boils down to the way it looks and the rest is just garish. " One of his goals is "to make powerful work that doesn't have to succumb to social or political issues for effect!" as he half-jokingly points out that the genre of "Social Realism as art must die now!!"
Ocampo of his paintings says: "What they mean I have no idea or I wouldn't want to read them in some pseudo-socio-psychological manner invoking Marx, Freud or the Post-Structuralists. I think art that tries to intellectualize itself like an academic lecture just falls flat when one really looks at it on a critical level because it basically all boils down to the way it looks and the rest is just garish. " One of his goals is "to make powerful work that doesn't have to succumb to social or political issues for effect!" as he half-jokingly points out that the genre of "Social Realism as art must die now!!"
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Onsite
artist
author
Location code
CLP.04.07.25
Language
English
Publication/Creation date
25 Jul 2004
Source of publication
The Philippine Star, 25 Jul 2004, p. C2
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1
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